"The received wisdom on global warming, published by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was updated this week. The
newspapers were, as always, full of stories about scientists being even
more certain of environmental Armageddon. But the document itself
revealed a far more striking story: it emphasised, again and again, the
need to adapt to climate change. Even in the main text of the press
release that accompanied the report, the word ‘adaptation’ occurred ten
times, the word ‘mitigation’ not at all." Viscount Matt Ridley, writing in The Spectotor.